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Friday, December 31, 2021

Atlantic's Applebaum adds to reminscences of academic, editorial freedom; mob justice rules now

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In an article in the October Atlantic , Anne Applebaum examined the potentially devastating effect of cancel culture on academic and edito...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Uruguay busca idear carta de derechos digital

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Palacio Legislativo en Montevideo ( foto por Tiana Gerfauo Gonzalez CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Uruguay está redactando una carta de derechos digitales....
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

News reports heroicize resistance to robbery, but storeowner's murder counsels common law wisdom

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Mahaseth and his wife ( posted to Twitter by Sam Smink, WHDH 7 News) A man was charged in early November for fatally shooting a Fall River,...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Police officer delivering lunch was off the job for immunity, injured fellow on the job for worker comp

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Pixabay by Ronald Plett ( license ) A personal injury claim against a police officer's automobile insurer highlights the different sco...
Monday, December 27, 2021

After dog bites postman, $375k jury award fits between floor and ceiling of high-low settlement agreement

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Pxhere CC0 In a dog-bites-postman case in Massachusetts, the Appeals Court in late October held that the parties' "high-low"...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Missionaries kidnapped in Haiti reach freedom, but murky U.S. policy generally fails ransomed abductees

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Haitian child in 2012 ( photo by Feed My Starving Children CC BY 2.0 ). News came last week that the last 12 of 17 Christian missionaries ...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Law student's diligence helps abandoned child reach win in immigration court, pathway to U.S. residency

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Belatedly, but aptly for the holiday, with permission of the UMass Law Immigration Clinic and the student, I am proud to share the news that...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Indigenous people battle extractive industries, government in Constitutional Court of Ecuador

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Kichwa representatives appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in 2015. ( CIDH photo CC BY 2.0 .) A case inchin...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

BU journal features Enríquez book on genome editing

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Tomorrow, Friday, November 5, beginning at 10 a.m., the Boston University Law Review Online hosts an online symposium on the book, Rewritin...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...